DOWNERS GROVE GOLF CLUB

The Downers Grove Park District owns and operates the Downers Grove Golf Club. The Downers Grove Golf Club, formerly the Chicago Golf Club is the oldest nine hole golf course West of the Allegheny Mountains. As part of the golf course's 100th anniversary the Downers Grove Park District initiated the development of additional golf facilities for park district residents. DAVID GILL & STEVEN HALBERG LIMITED was retained to design a golf driving range as an expansion of golf services and facilities at the Golf Club.

The project included:

• design of a golf learning center and driving range with
  practice putting greens, practice green-side bunkers,
  practice fairway bunkers, and target greens;
• site planning and design for the club house location;
• parking lot design and grading;
• a preliminary market and feasibility assessment;
• operating pro forma;
• equipment requirements including a
  capital replacement schedule;
• traffic pattern planning and landscape design
  for the club house area;
• wetland mitigation planning and design; and,
• design and remodeling of three holes to increase
  length and improve playing conditions on the golf course.

The golf holes opened in the spring of 1994 with the driving range opening in the late spring 1994.